PHP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.17, by Herong Yang
The ZipArchive Class
This section provides a quick introduction to the ZipArchive class, which provides you creating new ZIP archives, extracting files from existing ZIP archives, and other functionalities.
What Is ZipArchive Class? - ZipArchive class provides you functionalities to create new ZIP archives, and extract files from existing ZIP archives.
Here is a list of some main methods provided by the ZipArchive class:
ZipArchive class is provided from "zip" module, which is included in PHP binary packages for Windows.
On Linux systems, you can install it using the following commands:
# for Ubuntu systems sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip # for CentOS systems sudo dnf install php-pecl-zip
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Introduction and Installation of PHP
PHP Data Types and Data Literals
Variables, References, and Constants
Expressions, Operations and Type Conversions
Conditional Statements - "if" and "switch"
Loop Statements - "while", "for", and "do ... while"
Function Declaration, Arguments, and Return Values
Interface with Operating System
Introduction of Class and Object
Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server
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Creating and Managing Sessions in PHP Scripts
Sending and Receiving Cookies in PHP Scripts
Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines in PHP Scripts
MySQL Server Connection and Access Functions
Functions to Manage Directories, Files and Images
SOAP Extension Function and Calling Web Services
SOAP Server Functions and Examples
Localization Overview of Web Applications
Using Non-ASCII Characters in HTML Documents
Using Non-ASCII Characters as PHP Script String Literals
Receiving Non-ASCII Characters from Input Forms
"mbstring" Extension and Non-ASCII Encoding Management
Managing Non-ASCII Character Strings with MySQL Servers
Parsing and Managing HTML Documents
Configuring and Sending Out Emails
Extract Files from ZIP Archive
Create ZIP Archive with Directory
Create ZIP Archive for Download
Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS